James Nicoll Quotes

(James) White seems from all reports to have been a very pleasant fellow but he did have one huge blind spot, which is that he was as sexist as a giant ball of sexists wrapped in a dense layer of yet more sexists.

James Nicoll

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• My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Learn
  • Doing
  • Before

• Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Children
  • Telling

• We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Injustice

• The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Spiritual

• What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Want
  • Me
  • Television

• We have such a loyal following in London that we decided to open a shop, and I find Albemarle Street extremely charming and special.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Find
  • Special
  • London

• I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Life
  • Important
  • Think

• When I'm training a dog, I develop a relationship with that dog. He's my buddy, and I want to make training fun.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • Fun
  • Relationship
  • Training

• I do think 'All Is by My Side' is the type of film I'm the most happiest.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Think
  • Film
  • Happiest

• I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Idea
  • Embrace
  • Entertainer

• When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Poetry
  • Honesty
  • Modern

• I train very hard, either rowing on the cross trainer or running. Not only do you feel tired afterwards but it relaxes you, it completely clears the head. But to sort things out I also like to walk.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Running
  • Tired
  • Walk

• BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Body

• I want to challenge myself to see where my limit is and experiment with a lot of different films. A lot of artists from Asia focus too much on their Asian background. I don't want to let go of my background, but to be a success in the U.S., which is my goal, I realize I need to surround myself with American filmmakers and producers.

  

  Rain
  • Different
  • American
  • Success

• Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they're going to be wearing bulletproof vests. … They've got a big target on there, ATF. Don't shoot at that, because they've got a vest on underneath that. Head shots, head shots.... Kill the sons of bitches.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Alcohol

• Guyal reined his horse and reflected that flowers were rarely cherished by persons of hostile disposition.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Horse

• It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...

  

  Larry Wall
  • Book

• I get the same results with the exercise in Berlin or in the Netherlands that I do in the U.S. or Australia or Curacao. And what's even more distressing is the fact that I've gotten the same results using the exercise with adults in Scotland and Australia in the year 2002 that I got using the exercise with children in Riceville, Iowa, in 1968.

  

  Jane Elliot
  • Exercise
  • Results
  • Berlin

• I've played good guys for most of my career, and when I came out to California, I thought, 'I really would like to find some wonderfully intelligent bad guy to play.'

  

  Joe Morton
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity.

  

  Chris Anderson
  • World
  • Free

• Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.

  

  Caitlin Thomas
  • Sex
  • Love Is
  • Thieves

• It is wrong that corporations and the super wealthy play by a different set of rules.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Corporations
  • Set of rules

• (James) White seems from all reports to have been a very pleasant fellow but he did have one huge blind spot, which is that he was as sexist as a giant ball of sexists wrapped in a dense layer of yet more sexists.

  

  James Nicoll